The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1887-09-29
MARIETTA MATTERS.

-Groyes BROS. are lnsurlng cotton gins.
Printed Blank Receipts at 25cts per 100
at Journal Office.
The crop of acorns this year is uuusu-
ally large.
-Hardage & Co., of Big Shanty, pays
Pearl Shirts at Hirschs.
Mr.. James W. Hardeman has added
another room to his residence.
The persimmon trees are full of fruit,
and the 'possums will be fat this season.
Douglas SIS shoe at Hirschs'.
Place your orders for meats of all kinds
with Stephens Brothers.
Sessions, Handy & Co., have just re.
oeived a large lot of Jeans pants. The
best pants for the money that can be bought
Mr.. Johnnie Manget left Monday on a
visit to ST. Louis.
Mountain apples are being marketed in
great abundance.
The time for paying city tax expires
on the 10th of October. Save cost by pay
ing at once.
John H. Donehoo and Will Florence
are waiting on the customers at McCutch-
cons. Call and see them.
The weather Friday and Saturday was
quite COOL several persons douned thick
or clothing
Mr.. j. T. M. Spinks raised gourd on
his farm this year which measurers four
and half feet long
The place to buy shoes of all sorts and
sizes at live and help live prices at Nc
| Cutcheon's
-Hirsehs $5 Mems Suits are big bargains
Sessions, Handy Il Co. will sell 3 cakes
of Toilet Soap and nice finished box for
25cts. Worth so.
The best beef in the city at Stephens
| Brothers market.
"A 100000 cotton factory would pay in
Marietta. Who will organize stock com
oany for that pprpese.
The barbecued meat at EennesaY
Mountain was sauced with too much beer
and lemonade for some of the boys.
Judge H. NJ. Ham.nett returned from
his visit to Waxahachie, Texas, last Fri
day morning.
Everybody around Marietta say they
are going to the Piedmont Fair, and 1--we
believe them.
Mr.. g. W. Benson has sold his resi-
dence to Mr.. George R. Eager and will
move to Cumberland Island.
"A united active progressive spirit puts
a town forward on the road to prosperity
Let our people work together for the city's
gr9wth iH industrial enterprises.
Go to Stephens Brothers for tender
steak. Telephone "a.
Sessions, Handy & Co. have the best
rs n6R s shoes an town.
One hundred aad fifty gallons new
| crop Sorghum made by Robert 4. McCol-
um, at forty cents per gallon, at McCuch-
cons. Try it.
Something that is very badly needed in
our city is good number of hitching posts
to accommodate our country friends when
coming to town with their stock.
The cotton buyers of our town are fully
aliye to the situation and will pay the high
est market price fer all cotton brought to
Marietta
-Northcutt q Dobbs, real estate agents,
have sold II. H. Whites farm, near Too
nigh, Cherokee county, to Mr.. L. NJ. Dads
man, of Ebert county.
Mr.. i'rostoF lawrence is in the city
with view of supplying our city With va
ter works. His proposition is to put in
water works if the city will contract for fifty
hydrants at $l25O.OO per year
This is the time of year when debts
must be paid When you sell your cotton
drop in at rhe Journal Office pay what you
owe and renew for another year.
Begin to inspect your chimnies and old
tiues and get them in safe condition, that
you may have no accidental fires this com
ing winter, You will want to build fires
the first cold snap.
Extra Vests for Mems wear at Hirseh's,
Sessions Handy & Go. have some pure
n. 0. Sugar and Syrup. Don't buy this
chemical stuff when you can get the genu-
Inc.
The corner stone of the Sam Jones Fee
male College, Gainesville, is a beautiful
marble block hewn from Georgia quarry
and is the gift of those generous, progress
sive men, the Ameeioap Marble Company,
near Marietta.
Capt. James G. Hughes arrived home
from Memphis last week. He has rendered
his resignation as Superintendent of the
National Cemetery at Memphis We haven
heard whether it has been accepted or not.
We are all glad to have Captain Hughes
back with as.
AS snakes and alligators begin 10 in
fest Cobb county, some of our citizens want
whisky back again, as they are afraid to 90
out in the county for fear they will be bitten
by a snake or alligator, and they want an
antidote for poisonous bites
Dry goods, Groceries, Meal Flour and
Bran, Tin ware, Brooms, Axes, Tobacco on
sale at reasonable prices, or country pro
duce taken in exchange, at the highest
market prices, at McCutcheon's
Smoke the social Whit, pure Havana
! filler, guaranteed, and so cheap that the
poorest can smoke it. Sessions, Handy &
Co.
-Gentlemen's heavy underwear at
HIRscHs.
The pair ofshears' who edits the Doug
lasville Star is man Of good judgment,
and takes the Marietta Journals editorials
and uses them to suit his locality with a
cheek that deAes credit, We are not going
to have any Benet Hawthorne fuss about this
matter, however.
Mr.. j. r. Towers, principal keeper of